NEWS

Waste audit shows city slums generate little garbage

Source: The Times of India, Date: August , 2014

The generation of waste in the slums is one-fourth the
amount of waste generated in lower-middle class and higher income households,
according to a study conducted by students of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) in collaboration with the city based SWaCH  Solid Waste
Collection and Handling  a collective of wastepickers.

The daily per capita
waste generated in slums was about 78 gram. Compared to this, the waste generated
in lower-middle income households was 304 gram per capita, said Rachel
Perlman, research assistant at the MIT Tata Centre who conducted a waste audit
on the door-to-door waste collected by waste pickers in Pune as part of her
research. She was speaking at a three-day workshop organized by SWaCH on
Monday.